The commonly used analytical metrics include such insurance industry relevant measures as gross written premiums, earned/unearned premiums in time, submitted/processed/paid claim amounts, loss ratio, regulated-unpaid and other potential payments outstanding as well as various insurance specific financial reserves in time.

Interactive dashboards, which often serve as an end product for the BI users can afterwards support the everyday business decisions for various functions such as sales, claims administration, product managers and risk underwriters, actuaries, business controllers, accountants, general management and others.